REVIEW

REVIEW

REVIEW

thanks for
your mixed review
of my introductory chapter
to our new
book on poetry
and sociology

life is in essence
a sociological experiment
and, however you
slice and dice it,
the individual is
a latterday
construct, the group
social fabric and
the polis

all
of these come first

for what is poet if purely
individual? what
good
is that voice
if talking to himself?

better the poet stick with the group, receive those
accolades at
the great Nobel podium

or
chosing
ill-advised in
choice of path

wind up wrong side
of the arm of law
and social
power

stuck in internment
or asylum itself